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SUMMARY:Your Next Steps: Launching Your Understanding-Based ADR Work
DESCRIPTION:  \nYou have taken a conflict resolution training and want to add consensual dispute resolution to your existing practice or start a new practice— what next?  \nOur three-part series will help you explore your motivations\, professional goals\, opportunities and challenges. This will be an interactive process with exercises and briefings on practical aspects of starting and/or incorporating ADR into a practice or your work and bringing people in the door. You will leave with a concrete action plan to develop the next phase of your work. \nWho should take this series? People who are excited about incorporating the Understanding Based Model into their work but aren’t sure how or are looking for structured support in taking this step. \nDates: May 13\, June 24\,  and July 29\, 2022\nTime 9 – 11:30 AM PDT • 12 – 2:30 PM EDT • 6 – 8:30 PM CEST\nLogistics\nThe training session will be conducted through Zoom. After registration\, Kayla Hellal (kayla@understandinginconflict.org) will send a separate email with Zoom connection details.  \nParticipants are encouraged to log on ten minutes before the start of each session to troubleshoot any technical issues and help ensure the programs can start on time each day. \nCost\nThe program training fee is $297. \nA 5-10% discount is available for our CUC Connect members. Click here for more information. \n \nFaculty\nMelanie Rowen\, our President\, is a mediator and conflict coach who believes in the power of understanding-based conflict resolution to transform our world. She frequently trains individuals and groups on effective communication in conflict situations and on creating inclusive environments\, particularly around gender\, sexual orientation\, and disability. Melanie previously litigated civil rights cases\, including marriage equality\, employment discrimination\, issues involving transgender and gender non-conforming youth and their families\, and issues facing LGBTQI elders\, at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Before that\, she worked in business litigation at Latham & Watkins LLP.  Melanie serves on the Board of Directors of the Transgender Law Center and is the Associate Director for Public Interest Programs at UC Berkeley School of Law. \nCatherine Conner is a mediator\, collaborative attorney\, a teacher at and a director on the board of the Center for Understanding in Conflict. Her practice focuses on family law alternate dispute resolution\, including mediation\, collaborative practice and private judging.  She co-authored Collaborative Family Law Practice Materials.  She was on the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals board of directors from 2008 through 2014 and was the President in 2013. \nCancellation Policy\nPlease note our cancellation policy for this series: there are no refunds after the start of the series.
URL:https://understandinginconflict.org/event/your-next-steps/
CATEGORIES:Advanced Topics,Online Training
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SUMMARY:Disability Inclusion and Accessibility in Conflict Resolution
DESCRIPTION:Date June 2\, 2022\nTime 12 PM PDT • 3 PM EDT • 9 PM CEST\nCost $47\nAll webinars are free for CUC Connect members. Click here to learn more.\nWhen we create a container for working with parties in conflict\, how can we make sure we’re designing a process that is inclusive of and accessible to people with disabilities? Join Lainey Feingold\, disability rights lawyer\, public speaker and author of Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits\, with the CUC’s Melanie Rowen for a discussion of accessibility culture and mediation. Participants will come away with a better understanding of the intersections of conflict resolution\, disability inclusion\, and accessibility in the digital and built environment. The 25 year track record of Structured Negotiation as a collaborative dispute resolution process to advance disability rights will also be discussed. \nLearning objectives for this webinar include: \n\nUnderstanding what digital accessibility means and why it is a civil right of people with disabilities\nLearning practical steps to make mediation and other conflict resolution processes inclusive for people with disabilities in both digital and built environments\nDiscovering why Structured Negotiation has been an effective dispute resolution process in digital accessibility cases and beyond for a quarter century and how it integrates with mediation practice\n\n  \nFaculty\nLainey Feingold\n \nLainey Feingold  is a disability rights lawyer\, an author\, and a public speaker and trainer. She has her own law practice in Berkeley California and has worked in the digital accessibility legal space since the mid-1990s. Lainey and her clients and co-counsel developed and practice Structured Negotiation\, a dispute resolution process that focuses on collaboration and relationship building instead of the cost and conflict of litigation. Without filing any lawsuits\, she has negotiated complex accessibility settlements with dozens of organizations in the public and private sector\, including Walmart\, Bank of America\, and the City and County of San Francisco. \nLainey’s book is titled Structured Negotiation\, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits. Full of stories and strategies from over 25 years of her collaborative disability rights practice\, it was first published by the American Bar Association in 2016. The second edition was published in October 2021. \nLainey has been named a Legal Rebel by the American Bar Association and has twice received a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award — all for her work in Structured Negotiation and digital accessibility. In March 2022 she received the Jim Thatcher Lifetime Achievement Award at the Axe-Con digital accessibility conference. \nMelanie Rowen\n \nMelanie Rowen\, our President\, is a mediator and conflict coach who believes in the power of understanding-based conflict resolution to transform our world. She frequently trains individuals and groups on effective communication in conflict situations and on creating inclusive environments\, particularly around gender\, sexual orientation\, and disability. Melanie previously litigated civil rights cases\, including marriage equality\, employment discrimination\, issues involving transgender and gender non-conforming youth and their families\, and issues facing LGBTQ+ elders\, at the National Center for Lesbian Rights\, and served on the Board of Directors of the Transgender Law Center. Earlier in her career\, she worked in business litigation at Latham & Watkins LLP\, and for many years\, she was the Associate Director for Public Interest Programs at UC Berkeley School of Law. Melanie currently works in attorney professional development at the Bay Area offices of a large law firm\, and is a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association for Law Placement.
URL:https://understandinginconflict.org/event/disability-inclusion-and-accessibility-in-conflict-resolution/
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